Inequality of earnings

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This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand–supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally, it considers the implications of organizational change as a possible rationale for recent inequality developments.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CEPR Discussion Paper Series ; No. 2321

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Factor Income Distribution ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
• Subject: income distribution ; earnings ; wage rigidities ; skilled and unskilled workers ; education ; globalization ; technological change ; organizational change ; labour supply ; minimum wage ; unionization ; inequality ; Einkommensverteilung ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Vergleich ; USA ; EU-Staaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Snower, Dennis J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
• (where): London
• (when): 1999

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2539
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